Texas Comptroller Manual of Accounts - Fiscal 2025
Revenue Object 3018 – Special Vehicle Permits – Oversize and Overweight for Oil Well Servicing

Permit for the movement of oversize and overweight oil well servicing and/or oil well drilling machinery and equipment. Rate of fee set by department using these guidelines:

• State's investment in its highway system.
• Safety and convenience of the general traveling public.
• Amount of registration or license fee previously paid on vehicle for which permit is requested.
• Amount of such fees paid by vehicles operating within legal limits.
• Suitability of the roadways.
• Variation in soil grade.
• Seasonal effects on highway load capacity.
• Highway shoulder design and other geometrics.
• Load capacity of highway bridges.
• Administrative costs.
• Added wear on highways.
• Compensation for inconvenience and delay to highway users.

Before operating on highway; fee due at time of application.

Collecting agency changed from Texas Department of Transportation (601) by H.B. 3097, 81st Leg., R.S.

Per H.B. 2202, 83rd Leg., R.S., 90% was to be deposited to the State Highway Fund (0006) and 10% to the new Department of Motor Vehicles Fund. New fund was not exempted in funds consolidation bill (H.B. 6) and not created. Therefore the 10% allocation was deposited to General Revenue (0001).

S.B. 1512, 84th Leg., R.S. recreated the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Fund and it was exempted by H.B. 6, 84th Leg., R.S. Deposit of the 10% changed from General Revenue to Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Fund (0010). Effective 9/1/16.